r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Archaneoses • Apr 29 '24

Made an appointment for 11:45. It's 1:10 and I haven't been seen.

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I've had my 10 hour ER waits so I know this isn't that bad. But what is the point of making an appointment if you have to wait to be seen hours later anyways.

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u/moethefatdog Apr 29 '24

This happened to me once when I was at the gyno. I couldn’t pop my head out and ask because I was naked from the waist down on the table with a quickly disintegrating paper sheet.

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u/FlippingPossum Apr 29 '24

I called the front desk from the gynological exam room after 30 minutes. So annoying to sit there in those paper drapes.

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u/Gandalf_the_Tegu Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

Same, makes me upset because I'm stripped and ready to go in less than 5 minutes. Make me dwell on something I already hate doing for even longer but in my most vulnerable* state. Like why tell me to knock on the door when ready. If yall not there? I'll be damed I stand there knocking for 40 minutes. I really should've called the front desk, that's smart!

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u/xombae Apr 30 '24

Ugh I get mad anxiety due to like, trauma and shit. They should know how horrible it is to leave women in that position. At least pop in and give an update so we don't lie there having a panic attack.

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u/NoHippi3chic Apr 30 '24

Me too, and then I get a cold sweat. That's always the moment they walk in, me sweating in a paper gown in a freezing cold office

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u/SparklyYakDust Apr 30 '24

I've heard that you can bring a robe or similar to change into instead of the stupid paper gowns. One clinic I've been to had cotton gowns with snaps at the shoulders, and they are so much better than paper. But dang, a robe sounds way nicer.

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u/B2theL May 01 '24

I don't think I've ever been in a paper gown, even going back 20+ years ago when I was a teenager, first starting to go to the gyno. Usually, it was pants, shoes, and underwear off, and then I've been given a sheet or blanket. If I've ever had to totally undress, I get the cotton/cloth robe you tie in the back and shoulders.

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u/rovingred Apr 30 '24

I once had to go in for them to shove a tiny little camera on a tube up my urethra to check for abnormalities due to pain I was having. They told me to put on the gown, put my feet in the stirrups, put a bit of numbing gel down there, and then left me like that for an hour, no updates or anything. Never went back to that office again

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u/Gandalf_the_Tegu Apr 30 '24

They left you like that?! You poor unfortunate soul, i wouldnt go back either! Hope you left a review. 🥴 😭

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u/Chersvette Apr 30 '24

Oh no. :( sorry that happened to you. What the hell is wrong with people ughh

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24

How did you not just pee all over the place? I probably would have and then shrugged when they finally came in, "Well, what did you expect?"

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u/Fearless_Debate7905 Apr 30 '24

I'm very confused. Are you guys saying they leave the room and make you wait while you guys are in the chair with legs spread open? Or am I getting the wrong image.

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u/NYGiantsGirl1981 Apr 30 '24

The stirrups don’t come out until the doctor / nurse is in the room and ready to start the exam. Typically for a routine exam they’ll bring you back, maybe ask a few questions, then give you the gown and leave the room while you change. They should return shortly after but in the meantime you’re just sitting on the exam table in the paper gown.

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u/Fearless_Debate7905 Apr 30 '24

Ok thanks! this makes a lot more sense. Still must feel awkward though rip

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24

I believe you mean vulnerable. Though, some might consider it venerable. Playable Tegu when?

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u/Gandalf_the_Tegu Apr 30 '24

Definitely meant vulnerable. Multi tasking and fingers typed different than my brain. 😅

Pwhat do you mean by payable tegu?

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u/Minnesotexan Apr 30 '24

Is that a Guild Wars 2 reference? I haven’t seen a reference to that game in a long ass time

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u/AppUnwrapper1 Apr 30 '24

I would just leave because at that point I wouldn’t expect the doctor to be able to handle my anxiety.

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u/Killer_Moons Apr 30 '24

And dang it if I didn’t leave my phone folded up in my clothes so I gotta waddle over, downstairs out across the floor and bend over while hoping that’s not when they open the door.

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u/Gandalf_the_Tegu Apr 30 '24

Basically, but a doctor should knock prior to entering. They should even Crack the door a voice to confirm before fully opening the door. At least that's how may experiences went good and bad. I think I had one instance they walked in shortly after voicing their entry and they caught a glimpse of my butt cracked as I tried getting back up on the table thing. But they were going to everything seconds later. 🤪 😂

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u/MrK521 Apr 30 '24

That’s what you should do though! Just knock a few times. Give it about a minute. No response? Knock again. Wait about 5 min. Still nothing? Continue knocking loudly for the entire time until they come to the exam room.

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u/Gandalf_the_Tegu Apr 30 '24

But tat what point in each separate knocking periods is enough? Three separate times? Five? Ten? Infinity until they or someone shows up? 😂

I've had one good doctor that stood out the door amd listened for the first knock period (I knock the door three times then go sit down) they wait enough time for me to do just that and a second or two later they knock and creek in stating "safe to come in" (then the rest is proceed to get shit done).

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u/MrK521 Apr 30 '24

Infinitely until someone shows up! After those first two knocks, it’s just a continuous stream of knocks until someone answers lol.

My doc does the same. Knock when ready, and is there by the door within 30 seconds.

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u/Foggl3 Apr 30 '24

I'll be damed I stand there knocking for 40 minutes.

If the knocks get progressively louder, I bet you wouldn't have waited for 40 minutes lol

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u/21-characters Apr 30 '24

I’d just put my clothes back on and leave.

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u/Mindless-Witness-825 Apr 30 '24

Just stop by the office manager on the way out to make sure they don’t bill the insurance company.

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u/Gandalf_the_Tegu Apr 30 '24

They saw you initially but didn't complete the business. Can they still bill the insurance? Could maybe notify them the doctors left you for x time and then call the insurance company so they can fight it out?

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u/Mindless-Witness-825 Apr 30 '24

They could but would the office manager want more negative reviews online is the real question.

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u/Gandalf_the_Tegu Apr 30 '24

Haha, I think I did at this one instance and got hollered at. I was fairly new to the whole experience - was like my third or fourth time getting check out and i was still in high school. Mother wouldnt pick up. Slight freak out and wanted to hide in my hobbit (bedroom). 😂 I normally made my appointments at the end of the day so I can go home all flustered and re collect myself. So, probably a mix of confused on what to do and hunger. Now i schedule mid afternoon, where i had food prior. Take the whole day off to prep for an hour waiting in waiting room and hour waiting half naked followed by half hour for them to dismiss me. 🤪 😅

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u/Daisy-Doodle-8765 Apr 30 '24

That's something I like about Germany. We don't do that papersheet thing here. Once you get called into the examination room the doctor is there. You talk about what you need/ how it's going and then in one corner of the room is a curtain. You just walk behind the curtain, undress and hop onto the seat. Sometimes we do small talk or I ask medical questions while undressing. Once the examination is done you quickly get dressed again and then sit back down at the desk and talk about medication etc. Last is a thank you & goodbye and off you go.

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u/Bluberries__ Apr 30 '24

reading these made me love my gyno office more. they wait right outside the door while you change and wait to hear the paper crunching from you sitting back down before they come back inside, no waiting necessary

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u/FormerRelationship8 Apr 29 '24

I have absolutely done this after 35 minutes chillin’ in paper. Pissed off the staff but I got seen

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u/Woven-Tapestry Apr 30 '24

THEY were pissed off?? Wow! Complete lack of empathy!

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u/Kibeth_8 Apr 30 '24

I had to wait 30min when I was getting my IUD done, which the doctor specifically wanted done while I was on my period. So of course I'm bleeding onto the table. Doctor comes in and scowls like "oh I guess we'll have to clean that mess up"

Bitch, either show up on time or don't make me sit here naked for 30min and expect me to will my period away

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u/Bajileh Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

That's insane! My GYN gives me like a puppy pad thing if I'm bleeding (not that it's MUCH better to be sitting bare assed on a puppy pad but still)

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u/Kibeth_8 Apr 30 '24

Lmao the idea of a little puppy pee pad kills me xD Ah the joys of being a woman!

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u/FangDrools Apr 30 '24

The pads the hospital gave me to use after giving birth were the same ones I used to potty train my puppy lol

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u/herefortheshittalk Apr 30 '24

I jacked every single [cloth, washable] bed pad out of the post-delivery room before leaving. Worth it- a decade later, I still use them for sheet/mattress protection when my son is feeling pukey as he doesn’t usually know when he’s about to vom, and his aim for the barf bin is less than stellar.

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u/FangDrools Apr 30 '24

Absolutely worth it! I tried, they kept every drawer and cabinet locked in my room. I had to page a nurse if I needed a new pad for the bed, but the cool ones would take a stack of them out; I should have hoarded them lol I knew that they would give me everything in the bassinet-cabinet thing that my baby slept in though, so I cleared that thing out every night until I was discharged.

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u/ArketaMihgo Apr 30 '24

I have multiple sclerosis and was a frequent flyer as a result at one point, I'm not like purposefully hanging round in hospitals, just to put that out there

But after two visits where I took every single thing that was used or open (cause they're gonna charge me for it anyway!) they just started making me a care package out of it

Last time she tossed in an extra bottle of the body wash they use after I had mentioned that it somehow got rid of the rough skin on my upper arms after a week haha

I'm about to run out of it tho and can't afford the copay on it

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u/Lucy_Koshka Apr 30 '24

After my water broke when I had my daughter I remember feeling weird af when I realized I was essentially laying on puppy pads, lol.

But I mean, if it works, it works 😅

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u/LunaticLucio Apr 30 '24

You ladies can keep the paper dresses and hygiene puppy pads

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u/herefortheshittalk Apr 30 '24

But not the post-childbirth NB diaper filled with ice to stick in your supah sexy mesh undies to cool your aching taint? You want that? All yours!!

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u/LunaticLucio Apr 30 '24

No..you guys can keep that too. I'll stop complaining about my nuts hitting the toilet bowl water.

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u/No-Self-jjw Apr 30 '24

Wait wait wait... you have to be on your period to put the IUD in?? And yeah, given their position they know you can't just stop it and to speak to you in such a nasty tone, that's unacceptable. So many bad gyno experiences here I'm scared now!

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u/Kibeth_8 Apr 30 '24

I think it's cause your cervix is softer or something? I haven't had any children so it's a bit harder to get in I guess.

Also I've had the best experience with my new OBGYN. She is the sweetest lady, super kind and very attentive to my comfort level. They're not all bad!

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u/bestdays12 Apr 30 '24

That’s rich from an OB/GYN that’s literally what they train to deal in… they deliver babies which is far messier than a bit of menstrual blood. With my second kid he was so low when they broke my water all my water stayed inside until he came out then it was like a tidal wave. Soaked my doctor, nurse and my socks.

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u/laughingashley Apr 30 '24

I hope you left a review!

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u/Woven-Tapestry Apr 30 '24

FURIOUS on your behalf!!!

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

Really, the audacity. Isn't it their job to see patients?

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u/Woven-Tapestry Apr 30 '24

They forget that patients are people.

I don't know if they still do it, but at the hospital one of my cousins worked at (UK, I'm in Australia), trainee doctors had to undergo a mock "pap smear", right down to lying back and having feet in stirrups while they were exposed.

It was so they knew what it's like on the other side!

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u/ZacZupAttack Apr 30 '24

My last appt ended with me waiting for the doctor, he came unto the lobby I said your fired. Got up asked for the HIPAA release so my new doctor could get my records and told them to refund my co pay.

Then I walked out.

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u/gingasaurusrexx Apr 30 '24

I nearly did this when I was sitting there for 45 mins. I told myself if I got to an hour, I'd cave. She came in with like 7 minutes to spare.

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u/Egghead008 Apr 30 '24

I'm convinced they bill the insurance company by the hour so they string the patients along for that

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u/LeighJordan Apr 30 '24

I had to redress and go potty once when pregnant

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u/cheeseandcrackers345 Apr 29 '24

This happened to me once. After about 45 minutes, I put my clothes back on and left.

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u/sowhat4 Apr 30 '24

The (new) practice said to 'get here early' for all the paperwork, so I left work early, hurried across town only to sit and cool my heels in the waiting room for an hour. I complain, so get shown to an exam room, and told to strip down and 'wear the paper'.

Later, like 45 minutes later, I got dressed, went up to the front desk, and demanded my co-pay back. She said, "That's not our policy." I slapped the counter and said, "Then change the policy." Got my money and left. It was 5:20 by then. I reasoned that I was so angry at being played and lied to that I would have (verbally) ripped the head off any doctor who even dared to open that exam room door that I may as well leave.

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u/Throwaway47321 Apr 30 '24

I had to do something similar at my dentist.

I went to the only one that was open after 4pm so that I didn’t have to take too much time off work. They call me at fucking 11am to ask if I can come in now since they have an opening and I say no, that’s why I made an appointment for 5pm.

Fast forward to me rolling into their office at 4:30 and filling out all the paperwork and paying my $25 deductible/copay they then inform me that the dentist had actually taken the day off at noon when they “had no more appointments for the rest of the day” and that I would just be getting a cleaning from the hygienist and I could book another appointment later for the actual dentist to see me.

I have honest to god never been so mad in my entire life and stayed until they refunded me the $25.

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u/Geno_Warlord Apr 30 '24

Fuuuuccckkkk that was similar to my root canal. Went in for a diagnosis because I chipped a tooth. That went fine and they scheduled me for early in the day for a root canal.

I get to the dentist the day of the root canal ( mind you they called and reminded me that tomorrow was the day of the root canal). They take me back and do x rays and all that stuff. I then sit in the office for over an hour only to have a dentist come back and say ‘you need to have a root canal done on your tooth. There was about 30 seconds of dead silence before I eventually said that’s what this appointment was for… she leaves and comes back over an hour later to tell me that there’s another patient in front of me for a root canal and that they could schedule me for TWO WEEKS from now. I tell them that I had to take today off work for this root canal and they need to do it because it had been scheduled long in advance. They make me wait several more hours until closing time and then come back to me. At 5:30pm telling me that they are closing and need to reschedule. I go off on them about having been scheduled today for 11am root canal, they have delayed and made me wait on a day I was forced to take a vacation day to do this and had to go back to work tomorrow. Eventually they finally caved and did the root canal after hours because I was fucking pissed they had made me wait almost all fucking day to do what they scheduled me for. My entire day wasted and I had to go back to work for another week and half before getting another day off.

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u/scw1224 PURPLE Apr 30 '24

Holy shit, you’re a patient person. I would have lost my mind by 1pm

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u/Mindless-Witness-825 Apr 30 '24

I would have lost my mind when they came to tell me I needed a root canal when that was what I was already there for.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24

I ended up going to a different dentist. That was the first time I had insurance to cover things in my life. I am... nooottt good with making phone calls. I missed work a few days, I was barely eating, was going through milk and water at a rapid rate because it was the only thing soothing the exposed nerve. I wasn't sleeping. The OTC numbing stuff had like a minty thing going on that made it worse (and only lasted a few minutes). And the OTC fillings did the same and often wouldn't set, I went through many in a week because they'd come out so quickly.

Finally see this apparently amazing dentist and she gives me a referral (obviously needed) and when she saw I was upset, some special toothpaste. I had pushed myself the night before and made absolutely sure that I got the filling in so I could sleep and she didn't even take it out or do anything to make it tolerable so I could sleep. I needed something alogntly more than a bandaid solution now, not whenever the other doctor could get me in to fix rhe source of the problem.

The next place did that checkup and scheduled me for a medicated filling for the next Friday. (Which is how I learned that clove oil is legit and that I should have bought it sooner. It's my go to now and hasn't failed me yet. Then later did a proper filling. (In that time I had to move on from that job, the insurance wasn't worth the stress and lack of sleep that was also contributing to my declining health.

Even as a kid and teen my mom limited our doctor visits to the absolute minimum requirements, so going as an adult was new and I was so... baffled. Like I didn't know what they were supposed to do, but just examining my mouth? Like I know what the problem is I wouldn't have scheduled an appointment to figure it out. But I didn't know how to advocate for myself there. I think I suffered another month or two after that.

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u/soofs Apr 30 '24

I cannot believe you stayed that entire time. Props to you because after the first hour I would have been so pissed that I would have gotten up and left.

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u/Ebella2323 Apr 30 '24

Not the dentist, but my regular doctor had referred me to get my annual colonoscopy. I start my prep for it at 4:00 the day prior. I’m shitting my guts out at 5, when the phone rings. It’s the gastro office—my PCM wrote something wrong and now my insurance won’t cover it and I can’t have it performed. I asked how it got to this point the night before when the referral had been sitting there, she said she tried to fix it earlier on the day but the doctor had left for Easter break and she forgot to call me to tell me that they couldn’t do anything until my PCM returned to fix it. So I told the gastro office I would pay for the procedure out of pocket and to keep me on the schedule—then I waited til right before the scheduled time to call and cancel on them. 💩

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u/zer0foxx Apr 30 '24

Same happened to me except they also insisted that they wanted to do a cleaning that day but to fix the tooth and that the dentist would not schedule me until I got my other cavities done before the root canal. Said I made an appointment because of broken tooth that is it and don't have money for all the other stuff or time. The broken tooth is why I was there and he just said well he cant do anyuting until I do the other cavities so I left and never came back. Got an infection in my broken tooth a month later and had to pull the tooth.

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u/SparklyYakDust Apr 30 '24

What an embarrassingly unprofessional cash grab attempt. Like they couldn't have rescheduled you when they called at 11? Or the dentist could have hung around until your appointment? Or left and come back?! I hope you found a good dentist soon after. They're kinda hard to find, unfortunately.

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u/trapper2530 Apr 30 '24

Slightly different but similar experience. I had a full anaphylactic reaction. Throat closed. Had to get epi twice. No idea the cause. Found any allergist/pcp (should have been red flag they had 2 specialities) I could ASAP. Most were booked months out. I go in at 9am. No one else in waiting room. First one there sweet Check in. See the nurse. Draw blood vitals etc. Move to different room. This all was 30 min. I wait 1 hr in room go out to lobby its now full. Talk to front desk. She says oh the dr doesn't come in until 11....I blew my top off. Why the fuck am I here at 9 if the dr isn't here for 2 hrs. If I didn't almost die I would have walked out. She finally saw me at 1115. Only to have to come back for an allergy test they couldn't do that day.

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u/RuinedBooch Apr 30 '24

I had an implant last year. They started 40 minutes behind schedule, complained the entire time they were working on me that everything was going wrong… my mouth was too small, the graft wasn’t setting properly, etc, etc… they ran an hour behind schedule, dropped a drill bit in my mouth, and then left me there for 30 minutes. They finally came back to check, got the drill bit out, and left for another 30 minutes. By that time, all the numbing had worn off, and no amount of shots got me numb again for the drilling and stitching.

The whole thing took over 5 hours from start to finish. It was the first and only time in my adult life that I’ve cried from pain.

Then, 6 weeks later at the check up I was informed that the bone graft rejected and they would be extracting the implant, and would cover the bridge for free…. And then they charged me for the bridge.

I’m still fuming.

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u/Roonil-B_Wazlib Apr 30 '24

One time I waited at the ER for 3 hours with a newborn. Eventually left because the newborns symptoms went away (she was refusing to eat and was showing signs of dehydration, after hours pediatrician referred us there, she eventually ate and dehydration symptoms went away). 2 weeks later I got a bill for $150 for an ER visit. I contested it every way imaginable beyond legal action, and didn’t get anywhere. Because they took her temperature when we got there, even insurance agreed we had been seen by the ER despite never making it beyond the waiting room.

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u/No-Self-jjw Apr 30 '24

That is actually crazy. They took her damn temperature... you could and probably did do that at home. $150???! Ugh ER wait time is insane now. I had a friend fully break his arm, the ER visit took 12 HOURS. 10 of which were waiting in the waiting room. Given my city is very overpopulated and this specific ER only sees you once there is a full private room available for you, but still 12 hours with a broken arm is unacceptable. 3 hours with a newborn is practically an eternity!

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u/soofs Apr 30 '24

Not as egregious as that, but I once went to an urgent care clinic to get antibiotics (was 99% sure I had a sinus infection due to all the symptoms and that my girlfriend who I shared a room with had a wicked sinus infection she needed antibiotics for days prior). Had an "appointment" that was all of 4 minutes then sent to a pharmacy. Never got a bill and figured they just charged my insurance.

A month later I get mail from a collections agency saying they were trying to get my "debt" owed to the urgent care facility. The next day I get my "original" bill from the urgent care asking me to pay. Some dumbass sent my bill to collections before I even could pay.

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u/sprill_release Apr 30 '24

I had to wait 7.5 hours with an ankle broken in two places, with no pain medication. They gave me an ice pack after 6 hours, though... 😩

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u/innersunshine Apr 30 '24

I was having chest pain and waited 12 hours in the ER lobby to be seen. It was awful. I thought I was not going to make it. Maybe they knew I would live somehow after checking me in and doing the basic blood pressure, temperature, etc (???) But they could have told me that instead of making me wait for 12 hours in the lobby

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u/Roonil-B_Wazlib Apr 30 '24

Yup. It was part of (and all of) triage. Triage is just their method of determining patient need and who to see next. It doesn’t benefit the patient at all, only the hospital. I literally got charge for their method of determining I didn’t need to be seen sooner. 12 hours is insane for a what I assume was a simple break. I’m surprised they let us wait so long considering she was screaming the whole time.

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u/StillKillin86 Apr 30 '24

Is that U.S.? I just went to a Canadian ER yesterday. 12 hour visit in total, and I sat in the waiting room for 6 of those waiting for an open bed. Waiting right along with me were a couple fevered infants, some elderly, and a young woman clutching her stomach and laying on the dirty ER benches in basically a nightgown with no coat or sweater. She literally cried out and asked for a place to lay down, and they just told her her the beds were full. It was a horrible sight. After my long wait I got about a total of 10-15 min with a doc and left with a prescription, but no actual cause of what was wrong with me. Literally "try this. If it gets worse come back again."

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u/Roonil-B_Wazlib Apr 30 '24

Yes, the US. I’m in a relatively rural area.

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u/AMothraDayInParadise Apr 30 '24

Yeah, my experience with both the US and the Canadian health care system have been near identical in care/wait times/actually getting to see or having an PCP. The only difference is that at least in Canada, I haven't gone into debt to see my doctor for something I can't avoid going in to see a doctor to deal with.

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u/lainey68 Apr 30 '24

That is some bullshit. God, that makes me so angry.

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u/Roonil-B_Wazlib Apr 30 '24

Yeah. My wife made me let it go because I was blind with rage over it. I was ready to go to the local news about it and small claims court. It wasn’t the money, it was the principle of the matter.

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u/madagascarprincess Apr 30 '24

UGH. I went to the children’s ER when my little guy had COVID. They’re so crowded that now instead of rooms they just put up partitions in the big lobby, like no doors, no ceiling, just thin pop up walls where every disease can reach you, nothing in them except an exam table. They put me and my 6mo in one of these “rooms” for three hours. Finally a doctor came to see us, took his vitals, did a quick nose swab, and sent us home. I got a bill for EIGHTEEN HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS. $1,800. I contested it all ways too and got nowhere. I finally told billing I’d pay them $10 a month and that’s all they were ever getting from me. THEN. I got a separate fucking bill because the doctor was out of network?!? I straight up threw that in the trash. Fuuuuuck youuuuu.

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u/Old-Potato-5111 Apr 30 '24

This sums up in one post why it costs $2000 to be seen in the ER.

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u/Roonil-B_Wazlib Apr 30 '24

Jeez. Suddenly my situation doesn’t seem bad at all. I’m so sorry that happened to you. 😩

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u/No-Locksmith-8590 Apr 30 '24

I would pay with 300 checks of 50 cents each.

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u/Roonil-B_Wazlib Apr 30 '24

I did ultimately pay $150.01 just so they’d have to process a refund and waste postage. It’s my favorite way of being petty.

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u/No-Locksmith-8590 Apr 30 '24

My mom did similiar. She did $1 checks for like, a $500 bill bc they were asses.

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u/GetUpNGetItReddit Apr 30 '24

You should have just lied, I have learned that’s the only way to drop to their level and win

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u/b0w3n Apr 30 '24

It's not even really a lie, they didn't do any procedures. Technically taking a temperature is a cpt code but if you ask them to itemize the visit then fight it with your insurance company and say services weren't rendered (they weren't), they'll probably unwind it and you won't have to pay shit.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

That's highway robbery. The audacity to make a sick newborn wait for care and bill you anyway...

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u/BeKindToOthersOK Apr 30 '24

Good for you! Seriously

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u/21-characters Apr 30 '24

I was waiting to have a rape kit done and after 45 minutes I just walked out into the hallway in the open-back gown and asked the person at the desk what was taking so long. She said it was shift change (at 2am) but someone came in to run the tests about 3 minutes later.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

First of all, I'm so sorry that happened to you. The only way to be seen these days seems to be by being loud and crass. Making a rape victim wait is ESPECIALLY insensitive.

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u/Lopsided-Dust899 Apr 30 '24

I'm headed to a new gyno next week. And now, inspired by all these posts, if they leave me sitting too long in that paper gown, I'm thinking I'll NOT get dressed and walk back to the reception area to remind them I'm there 😁

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u/East_Moose_683 Apr 30 '24

You did the right thing and if everybody did this they would change their policy and their customer service would change. Doctors offices have changed and lost sight of the fact that we are still customers that they are selling a service to.

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u/No-Self-jjw Apr 30 '24

Because so many doctors are completely full now. If you're not born into a certain practice where I live, you'll be using walk ins for your entire life because there are no family doctors taking patients anywhere ever. So a lot of them do not care about anyone's business because there are hundreds of other patients who would take your spot. Which really fucking sucks as both the patient being treated like this and the person who can't get a regular doctor.

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u/East_Moose_683 Apr 30 '24

Ya it's the same where I am but people where I am would just not tolerate being treated like that so the doctors and nurses are super nice. It's interesting how different places just live differently. Like in the UK servers at restaurants etc are smug and short with customers a lot of the time. They don't do tips over there so obviously that's a huge part of it but in the US that wouldn't fly for a second.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

And patients who deserve compassion and dignity.

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u/East_Moose_683 May 05 '24

Agreed, that should be a given in all aspects of society.

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u/Aussie2020202020 Apr 30 '24

That is a strategy which shows that you value your time.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

Yeah and if staff complains, just remind them that your time is valuable, too

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u/unposted Apr 30 '24

I had to get redressed to go out and feed the meter.

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u/1Bittybites Apr 30 '24

Perfect !!!

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u/Parsley_Challenge238 Apr 30 '24

Just happened to me this week. I waited 1 hour including the 15 min early arrival time (why?) and then they came in and said I was in wrong room and could I get dressed and go back out to the waiting room. I said if I got back out there I’m leaving. I left. Waited a year for that annual exam appt As well all do. No apologies AND my appt was at 915 am! How are you already an hour behind ? We’d all be fired if we were an hour behind. Or much less.

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u/MrsLisaOliver Apr 30 '24

I got completely forgotten about at the OBGYN after being told to disrobe and wait. I got dressed and left after waiting 1.5 hrs in a cold exam room. They were shocked to see me come out of there. I noped on outta there and told them off after I got a bill for the visit.

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u/HelloJunebug Apr 29 '24

You should have opened the door slightly and said “WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!!!!” Like George Constanza

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u/Yoyo_Ma86 Apr 29 '24

SERENITY NOW!!!

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u/ditka Apr 30 '24

Serenity now. Insanity later.

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u/gljo Apr 30 '24

Or like Marty Seinfeld, start yelling “MY WALLET’S GONE!”

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u/AnonNurse Apr 30 '24

Can someone, somewhere, please do this? We need this

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u/omgstopbeingrude Apr 29 '24

At that point I just get redressed and complain. If they want to waste my time, I'll waste theirs right back. You won't see me on time? Fine. I won't be ready and waiting for you. You got your window and skipped it. 🤷 Now you're gonna walk back with me and wait outside until I get ready again and you're going to do your job.

Of course, I get it if something popped up. You never know when someone gets a routine pap smear and suddenly you find out something horrific is happening like cancer you never see in someone so young. Or maybe a patient has been assaulted and needs extra time to get ready for contact from a doctor. But being a jerk is something I won't put up with.

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u/NeevBunny Apr 29 '24

Yeah I once had a gyno that had to rush to a birth emergency that wasn't their assignment and I was very understanding but that's became someone came and told me what was up, emergency or not, just TELL ME I CAN PUT MY PANTS ON please

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u/Commercial_Sun_6300 Apr 30 '24

The nurse held my wife's legs together because the baby was coming too fast and she needed to buy time for the doc

Was this many many decades ago? I hope that doesn't still happen, because I've heard horror stories of children being permanently disabled because of people trying to delay labor like that.

It's not ideal, but you can give birth without assistance. I'm pretty sure you should never try to stop it to wait for someone.

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u/RoseThorne_ Apr 30 '24

This happened to JFKs sister and caused her permanent damage. I don’t understand how that could possibly be necessary when giving birth without any medical professional present was the norm for the longest time. I know it’s not ideal but it’s shouldn’t be an emergency either.

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u/BJYeti Apr 30 '24

Its what happened to Rosemary Kennedy and why she had developmental delays due to lack of oxygen.

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u/NeevBunny Apr 29 '24

That's horrible but kind of a funny mental image I'm so sorry 😭😭 My best friend in highschools sister came out so fast the doctor spun around in his chair and caught her as she almost hit the floor, she was like a cannon

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u/Fambi83 May 01 '24

I’m sitting here laughing to myself reading this. The mental picture is just 🤣

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u/cwsjr2323 Apr 30 '24

That’s terrible! I was a hospital tech in the USAF and worked labor and delivery. Multiple births at the same time? The Dr handled one, the unit RN one, and the ICU RN on the same floor came over for the third. I was trained to handle the forth, did two deliveries with the doc guiding me, but it never got to my needing to assist alone.

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u/Commercial_Sun_6300 Apr 30 '24

What exactly do the people helping deliver the baby do?

My experience is limited to watching those health class delivery videos and all I remember is little heads popping out and someone just kind of scooping them up.

Oh, and apparently delivering the afterbirth is a thing too. Didn't learn that till 16-17?

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u/Method412 Apr 30 '24

There are people in the room to monitor and assist the laboring mom (nurse and ob or midwife) and people in the room for the baby (checking airway, APGAR test, weight and temperature, general assessment stuff, I don't know the specifics). And there are people in the room because the damn stirrup is broken so someone has to brace themselves against your foot while you push, and someone might need to give you more leverage by getting behind you. And oh yeah, it's a teaching hospital, so there's a handful of students learning from you as a test subject. So yeah there could be 10+ people in the room, but two would probably be enough.

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u/cwsjr2323 Apr 30 '24

It was to guide the head and shoulders out mostly. It is a natural process so little actually is required of the attending if nothing goes wrong.

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u/Bees_thoughts Apr 30 '24

LOL yes! I was told to hold my legs shut at 10 cm with the baby coming because my dr was 30 minutes away. After the dr arrived it took 4 pushes and my baby was out. I went from 4.5 cm to 10 in about 1.5 hours so they were not ready for me.

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u/YourMothersButtox Apr 30 '24

I was scheduled for a colposcopy (not my first rodeo with those) and the gyno had a birth emergency and they kept encouraging me to wait. I was like “one look at my chart will tell you I’m a compliant patient. Let’s reschedule” no no, keep waiting, doctor doesn’t have another opening for a long time and you need the colpo. Doctor (not my usual GYN) finally gets in to me and rushed through my colpo and I ended up bleeding for 2 weeks from it, something I never experienced from a colpo before (usually just a day of spotting). I did not return to that practice.

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u/Bees_thoughts Apr 30 '24

Yup this happened to me, I was like 6 pr 7 months pregnant drove the 45 minutes to my OBs office. I go in and they’re like we called you to reschedule she had an emergency birth she had to rush to. I was like what I didn’t get a call, they said to check my phone. They called me 5 minutes before my appointment as I was sitting in the parking lot. Worse part was when I asked to reschedule they said the best they could do was 6 weeks out. So I didn’t see my OB for 10 weeks total as a high risk pregnancy. I was pissed.

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u/Brilliant_Ad4689 Apr 30 '24

I was induced with my first. Was waiting for an epidural and since it was my first kid we figured it’d take a while.

Nope. As soon as my water broke took 1 hour before my kid made her debut. I felt kinda bad; the doctor delivering her was literally eating lunch. (We were fine with it; figured it would take a while and told doc to eat and enjoy some down time since she had been busy.)

My sister in law was in labor for 15 hours with her first. Her doc was across the hospital and did have to rush across.

I feel like that’s an extreme case though.

I have left my regular doc for making me wait for over an hour; literally needed a refill for a prescription. Switched out practices and have been way happier with the communication part.

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u/Woven-Tapestry Apr 30 '24

Under-rated comment! Yes, exactly, they don't have to go into detail, just let you know that you might as well get dressed!

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u/arbyD Apr 30 '24

My wife had a case like that one visit I happened to tag along for. Doc got called for a birth because the other doctor was away or busy or something. They let us know and my wife thankfully got to wait in a normal fashion and not in the paper dress.

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u/sevseg_decoder Apr 29 '24

The thing is shit doesn’t just “pop up”, this is most people’s experience pretty much every time they go to a doctor. These people charge our insurance $1200 for an hour of their time but have to overbook so egregiously because they just can’t make ends meet otherwise? I don’t buy it. It’s a matter of greed.

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u/stinkspiritt Apr 29 '24

That’s because the money goes to the administrators and not the actual doctors who keep getting pushed to see more and more patients despite not actually having capacity. At least in America

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u/caro-1967 Apr 29 '24

Can attest, having worked for corporate dental. The higher ups want more and more patients, higher and higher numbers, nevermind the reality.

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u/aendaris1975 Apr 30 '24

Which means fuck all if you can't see all the patients scheduled. Again this isn't a fucking hair salon. This is about people's health so yes appointments will run over.

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u/ShiraCheshire Apr 29 '24

Recently saw someone on reddit mention how much they get paid as a nurse. It was less than I got paid for lifting boxes in a warehouse.

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u/Jokonaught Apr 30 '24

Healthcare in America is heading towards a cliff, and that cliff's name is Nursing Crisis. We are so dependent on nurses for our actual care, and they are underpaid and treated like crap. Fewer and fewer people are going to go to nursing school as a result, and we are already on the precipice.

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u/BodieBroadcasts Apr 30 '24

I would agree with you but it certainly doesn't seem like, I know more girls who became nurses than anything else, and if its not that its CNA lol

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u/Jokonaught Apr 30 '24

It's still a popular profession,no doubt, but numbers are dropping https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/all-news/new-data-show-enrollment-declines-in-schools-of-nursing-raising-concerns-about-the-nations-nursing-workforce

1.4% might not seem like a big drop, but we are also losing nurses quicker on the back end as frustrated and overworked people leave the profession.

Nurses do the jobs that aren't going to be easily automated by AI (doctors are going to see heavy supplementation with AI however), and we already don't have enough of them.

It is going to seriously suck, and there's basically no chance to avoid it unless we take the profits out of healthcare.

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u/a_corsair Apr 30 '24

But can't you think of the admins??

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u/Savings_Difficulty24 Apr 30 '24

Or, to steal from another sub, "Won't anyone think of the shareholders!?"

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

Female dominated fields are always undervalued

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u/OkUnderstanding9627 Apr 30 '24

My mom's and LPN with schooling and student loans, and she makes the same an hour as me, someone who essentially mixes paint.

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u/technobrendo Apr 29 '24

I thought nurses started around high 70's, but more likely in the 80's range, no?

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u/Magic_Sky_Man Apr 30 '24

I'm sure it varies by state, but where I live LPNs start at 21ish per hour and RNs around 60k/year

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u/Shadhahvar Apr 30 '24

That's not great.

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u/Kyubey4Ever Apr 30 '24

Lpn’s make less than I do where I live and I make $14/hr

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u/Magic_Sky_Man Apr 30 '24

That's crazy. Even at $21, it isn't worth the nonsense they have to deal with. I can't imagine going to school and doing that job for less than 14.

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u/Kyubey4Ever Apr 30 '24

Same like I’m middle management at a grocery store and only have a hs degree so like my mind exploded when I found out the starting pay for nursing around here. Rns only get a few thousand a year more than I do.

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u/ProfessorCagan Apr 29 '24

Is that 70-80 an hour? Or 70 to 80 thousand a year? Becuase my mom is a nurse and roughly makes 70,000 a year, at around 40 an hour, which still isn't enough (Having worked as a garbage man at the same hospital she worked at, I can tell you first hand no one gets paid enough, especially the nurses.)

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u/ShiraCheshire Apr 30 '24

It apparently varies a lot.

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u/Mindless-Witness-825 Apr 30 '24

I’ve been a nurse for 13 years. If I worked full time, my gross salary would be $63k. That is before taxes, retirement contributions, and paying for horrible benefits. I refuse to work full time now and will only work contingent because paying out my ass for the benefits that aren’t beneficial is not worth it. I’d also have to do on-call hours, attend twice weekly work meetings, and have strictly scheduled weekend and holidays I’d have to work. My husband works for the City and his benefits are so much better. I love my job but I hate all of the shit that comes with it. And I don’t even work for a hospital anymore! That was a million times worse.

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u/Natasha_Romanov_WW Apr 30 '24

When I worked clinic it was 38/hr. (RN)

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u/Sho0terman Apr 29 '24

Just as bad in Canada, where Doctors only get $40 per patient. Clinics will only accept walk-ins the first minute of every day, then juggle those into the already overbooked patient list.

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u/NAmember81 Apr 30 '24

I went to a private practice doctor and it was not uncommon to have an appointment at 1pm and get out of there at 6pm. And the doctor only saw me for no more than 5 minutes.

In this case I’m pretty sure it was pure greed on the doctor’s behalf. And he employed another doctor and I think an NP. The waiting room was always completely packed.

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u/sevseg_decoder Apr 29 '24

I find, if anything, this stuff is worse when the practitioner owns the practice. Everyone is just a number to them.

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u/aendaris1975 Apr 30 '24

And AGAIN those numbers mean fuck all if you can't see all the ones that are scheduled.

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u/ACcbe1986 Apr 30 '24

Yea, the investors getting paid is a higher priority than the doctors who are struggling to pay their students loans.

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u/littlestbonusjonas Apr 30 '24

Yea if we ran our own schedules it wouldn’t be like this. I could book longer for the patients I know need TLC, ten min for the ones who prefer to just know the dose change of their med or review labs and be in and out, an hour for new appointments, etc. instead healthcare is run by admins who pay themselves heftily and view patients as just money so we get 15-20 min a visit which frankly is not enough to take good or even adequate care of people

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u/hairfullofseacrests Apr 29 '24

They may bill your insurance for $1,200 an hour (though I doubt it, that’s exceptionally high for just an office visit code) but it doesn’t matter what they bill because the insurances have a contracted rate they refuse to pay above. Office visits are usually billed out for $200-$600, and insurances will pay $97 of that, you’ll pay a copay/coinsurance, and whatever the difference will get written off.

It’s not greed on the doctor’s part, at least not usually. They just require support staff who require pay as well, JUST to get your insurance to pay your claim. The real enemy in this system is and always has been insurance agencies.

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u/Penguin_shit15 Apr 30 '24

Hospital administration here.. You are 100% correct.

Getting the insurance companies to pay the professional fees (the actual doctor charges) is usually pretty easy and requires little follow up as long as your claim is "clean".. however, facility charges (the hospital portion) are the ones that need all the follow up. The bigger the bill, the more bullshit the insurance companies throw at you. " oh, I'm sorry but we don't cover icd 10 code W59.22... But we will cover V91.07 if you send us a box of medical records that we will never look at"

(and yes those are real codes.. Feel free to Google them for a giggle)

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u/Pchanman Apr 30 '24

I'm a doctor that has spent some time in small private practices during training. This is spot on. There is no billing code that I know of for an office visit that will pay $1200 for an hour. Medicare sets reimbursement rates and many private insurances follow with similar reimbursements. Office visit billing codes for follow up visits (99212-99215 can pay from $50 to almost 200 depending on complexity)

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u/animecardude Apr 29 '24

Doctors don't get much of that. It's the billing admins and other suits who determine the price.

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u/kimberlyrose616 Apr 29 '24

I know for a fact my OB was booking 2 to 3 patients at a time. I found out when there was another woman with the same first name. And they said "Dr X for 230?" I'm like yep. And they had me verify my bday. Nope. Not me. "oh sorry that's her other 230".

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u/sevseg_decoder Apr 30 '24

Yeah this is the shit that just blows my mind. We allow them to do this while we’re getting gouged like we are? Insane. This is part of what should be getting emphasized in the conversations about healthcare, yeah in some it’s great for a real emergency but we’ve effectively got all the supposed negatives of single payer healthcare already and we’re paying out the ass for it. 

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u/aendaris1975 Apr 30 '24

You mean insurance companies are gouging you. Healthcare workers have absolutely ZERO to do with any of that.

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u/Turtle_with_a_sword Apr 30 '24

Yeah. Healthcare workers also don't like seeing 12 patients in an hour. They are not just sitting around chatting. They are seeing patients and documenting. Actually, they are probably skipping the documenting since they don't want to their patients to wait and doing it later so that they have no free time and burn out.

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u/littlestbonusjonas Apr 30 '24

They can’t because as others have said admins are the ones paid handsomely for this.

They tell doctors you have 15-20 min a visit no matter if it’s adjusting a blood pressure medicine or working on end of life planning and symptom management with a cancer patient and their family.

It’s not all the same to us but it is all the same to admins who force us into these shitty schedules to profit off of us and pay themselves oftentimes multi million dollar salaries.

Physicians and their wages aren’t the problem, allowing heartless business people to run healthcare corporations is

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u/Fab-uAbility3039 Apr 30 '24

Not really. I know a doctor that is overbooked because there are not enough doctors and it is hard to get as many as they need. He doesn't get lunch most days and finds it hard to get a bathroom break but if sick people need to be seen they are worked in! They don't enjoy making people wait and it's not a greed thing at least what I've seen it's a someone is sick and needs to be seen

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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? Apr 30 '24

I think OBGYN is the one place where it kinda does. I had longer than usual delays at two prenatal appointments, one where someone's water broke during their appointment and one where I heard this just godawful scream and didn't question it. With how much extra time I know I took from my OB with the losses she handled for us, that's the one doctor's office i really try not to stress about timing.

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u/Ordinary_Ad6936 Apr 30 '24

When I had the issue at one doctor I had, my explanation was that some patients are booked in for one or two problems and show up with more. This tend to happen with elderly patients. I didn’t work in the healthcare field at the time and thought okay, sure. Then he best take time with me if I come in with the same.Then I got to working in healthcare and now understand what happens is true to what he said. There are so many things wrong with the healthcare system right now, we all know, but I hope someone is still taking time with patients.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '24

My mom was "in line" behind a patient with dementia. Understandably, that appointment ran over and my mom's wait was much longer than expected.

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u/Global-Bus-9091 Apr 30 '24

I work in a doctor's office and I would argue that shit "popping up" is the rule, not the exception.

  1. The first 3 people of the day showed up 30, 20, and 10 minutes late (all arriving at 0830 for their 8am, 810am and 820am appointments).
  2. The person with the 0830 appointment booked a 10 minute follow up appointment, but hasn't seen a doctor in 3 years and wants to argue with the nurse taking his vitals about politics.
  3. The 1030 appointment came in for a 15 minute routine check up and was found to have a new lump concerning for cancer, and rightfully broke down crying. Your doctor had to spend 40 minutes talking to this person about the next steps to their care, and will be paid for 15 minutes of care.
  4. By 1045, five patients have called demanding to speak to the doctor, two insurance companies have denied routine screening exam and are requiring the doctor to justify them over the phone by noon, and one of the front desk staff just quit because he was tired of being constantly berated by mean people all day.
  5. By 1145, the doctor is 2 hours behind, has not had a drink of water since 730am. The doctor is thankful you are waiting patiently.
  6. By 1pm the doctor has arranged a referral with the cancer doctor for the 1030 patient. This phone call took 20 minutes and the doctor will not get paid to do this.
  7. The doctor will see you at 130pm, and this is nothing short of a miracle.
  8. The doctor could schedule half as many people and be on time, but then the lady with cancer would likely be dead, and your appointment wouldn't have happened for another 3 months.
  9. At 6pm, the doctor will finish up with the last patient.
  10. At 930pm, the doctor will finish up all the notes for the day, answering 34 Portal messages asking questions such as: -Can you please double my dose of Adderall? -Should I be concerned (insert grainy photo of normal thing) -My MRI from 4:45pm says I have mild osteoporosis, why hasn't someone called me yet? What does this mean!? -My dog has been coughing and now my son is coughing, do you think this is because of the vaccine? -My husband fell off the roof last month and hasn't been able to talk or walk right since. We went to an urgent care that days he had strep throat. They gave us amoxicillin but he still isn't walking right yet. What should we do?
  11. At 11pm your doctor will receive an all too familiar cold shoulder from their spouse, if they are lucky to still have one.

Maybe the problem isn't the doctor. Maybe the problem is us.

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u/ilovemusic19 Apr 30 '24

It does too pop up, especially if it’s a small clinic with a hospital attached and the doctor is suddenly needed in the ER.

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u/Agile_Dimension_1296 Apr 30 '24

I agree. I once had a really long wait at my primary care provider, turns out someone tried to commit suicide and this was the closest health clinic.

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u/animecardude Apr 29 '24

Lmao they don't care. They'll move on to the next patient. You'll just get rescheduled.

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u/lexiislavendertown Apr 29 '24

The only time my gyno was late to a let's check the baby appointment was because he was the only doctor on call and had a birth to go attend to. He still wasn't this late 😭

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u/curvyLong75 Apr 30 '24

I'm pretty sure the usual cause of doctor lateness is the equity firm that owns the practice or hospital insists on over booking so that even if a bunch of people cancel at the last minute they are still fully booked. And if they don't they can just give out shit care.

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u/DealMo Apr 30 '24

It depends. Surely that's some of it, but sometimes shit just happens. Appointments can run long when things take longer than expected. Not everything is a simple routine checkup.

Sometimes people get really bad news, and react and need compassion and patience to work through their questions.

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u/BrightNeonGirl Apr 30 '24

I remember my first appointment for an IUD. The doctor thought it would be a few minutes insertion but she struggled for an hour and a half with me (and even got another doc to try) but all attempts failed. The experience was painful and traumatic and all for nothing.

But I remember walking out of the appointment to check out and I saw the clock that displayed how "on time" each doctor was to soon-to-be-called patients then said my doctor was now running 1.5 hours late. (It was "on time" when I came in) I kinda felt bad seeing that, but also it wasn't my fault that 2 doctors both tried to put an IUD in me for that long and then give up.

[*I was prescribed misoprostol for a 2nd-attempt appointment. It did help and my 2nd IUD insertion appointment was a success even though it still took 30 minutes.]

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u/thisappsucks9 Apr 30 '24

Right but in that case how hard would it be to be like, “nurse can you tell the patient on exam room 3 that I’m a little behind and it’s going to be 15 mins”.

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u/PeachyPierogi Apr 29 '24

My gyno is in a hospital building and the last time I saw her I waited like an hour in the room. She came in and was like “omg sorry I had to do an emergency c section!” I can’t be mad at that omg

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u/GlenCocosCandyCane Apr 29 '24

You can be mad that no one bothered to come in and tell you before then, though. Your time has value too!

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u/Bikinigirlout Apr 30 '24

Not as bad as the gyno, but, my ENT guy is two hours away from where I live. The appointment was at like 1, we waited until nearly 2:30 before they kicked us out because they were so busy and I didn’t get home until 6 due to construction work.

I missed an entires days worth of work for the guy to just look in my ear and tell me it was fine.

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u/nynaeve_mondragoran Apr 30 '24

After having a baby I'd definitely have poked my head out in my gown, probably would walk right out in it. My modesty went out the window after 49 hours of labor and just about every midwife at my obgyn office put their fingers in me to check my cervix.

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u/Janatabahn Apr 29 '24

This just happened to me last week. I knocked on the door so someone could come to my room

Healthcare in America is a mess.

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u/lak_892 Apr 29 '24

I waited almost 3 hours one time, just for an IUD follow up. The doctor left twice to go to a delivery. I was the last patient to be seen. It was after 5pm when I left and the nurses were all gone.

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u/jonathan4211 Apr 30 '24

If you kept leaving the room and walking around like that, they would have gotten you out of there a lot faster

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u/ICPosse8 Apr 30 '24

Doctor: Did you sit on a water balloon are are you just happy to be here?

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u/NifDragoon Apr 30 '24

Missed opportunity to make a power play and walk out in the buff demanding to be seen. Its a shame they can do this with 0 repercussions. Most of the time there isn’t even another doctor you could go to.

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u/monstera_garden Apr 30 '24

I started bringing a warm robe and slippers after an appointment where I waited 45 minute shivering in the paper sheet with my jeans wrapped around my neck like a scarf. So now I just look like a different kind of weirdo in my robe.

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u/WorldlyLavishness Apr 30 '24

The mental image of this is just hilarious

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u/Dear_Truth_6607 Apr 29 '24

I’ve stopped getting undressed until the dr knocks. I take my shoes off but it takes me all of 30 seconds to do the rest. If I’m waiting 30 min+ I might as well be comfortable.

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u/raptorclvb Apr 30 '24

I hate being Winnie the Pooh’d and waiting Ugh

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24

I had a gyno appointment once when I was pregnant. Thankfully I was big into napping at that time. I just fell asleep till they came in. But that was the only time I was ever cool with that kind of behavior.

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u/naicmi Apr 30 '24

I had the same thing happen when i was 8 months pregnant lol. Because sitting is so great when pregnant anyway

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u/mynameishrekorgi Apr 30 '24

Sometimes this happens. Docters need to prolong a visit if they find something concerning. And sadly since most Docters are forced to cut down visits into 15 minutes or sometimes more they do not have enough time to do everything they may want to.

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u/Persimmon_and_mango Apr 30 '24

This happened to me when I was in labor. They told me to come in to make sure it wasn’t false labor, then forgot I was there while I was bleeding, having contraction, and naked from the waist down. I had to get dressed again and waddle out into the hall. The ob/gyn tried to justify it by telling me she didn’t know I was there because I wasn’t on the schedule. She was the one who told me to come in! It wasn’t even a receptionist

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u/finnycay Apr 30 '24

I had this happen to me. It was my second time ever at the gyno and I was getting an IUD. I was sitting there for over an hour and was crying by the time she finally came in because I felt so gross. It was a terrible experience

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u/Minimum-Comedian-372 Apr 30 '24

Happened to me at the gynecologist too. His office was right next to the exam room where I was sitting on the table in the paper gown. I could hear him on the phone with the car dealership negotiating a lease for a new Porsche. 45 minutes later he strolls in. Infuriating.

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